With this, the overall prize pools rise to L$580,000 for Art and L$835,000 for MachinimUWA V.

CEO of Pookymedia, Pooky Amsterdam, will represent OPEN THIS END on the main judging panel for MachinimUWA V, while Catalina McCaw will play that role for the for the Art. Further as per previous MachinimUWA rounds, OPEN THIS END will form an internal panel to nominate a series of Award of Excellence winners to be announced at the Grand Finale from 6am SLT on the 5th of August.

Both of these events are set up such that the viewers or the audience experiencing the artworks or the film, can submit a top10 list in the order they think will be the ultimate juried order. The 3 viewers or audience members who come closest in both art & machinima events can win for themselves up to L$10,000. To take part, click the link for the 3D Art or for the Machinima and everything is explained!